It leaves the upper blue clear and the head of Orion, but dims the flicker of Sirius and shortens the steady ray of the evening star.
Idle memory, by the way, shortens life, or shortens the sense of time, by linking the immediate past clingingly to the present.
This method, which shortens the way, cutting the tropic nearly twenty degrees west of the point where it is commonly cut by pilots, was several times successfully adopted by Admiral Gravina.
It is plain that if reproduction shortens the life of mammals by weakening the organism, it must be the productivity, not the fecundity, which is the important factor.
It would be difficult to find a more striking argument in favour of the view that richness of the intestinal flora shortens life.
The fierceness of our Summer suns, when not counteracted by frequent showers, shortens deplorably the productiveness of many Vegetables and Berries.
It shortens the intervals between the attacks, and tempts the patient to continued indulgence in the habits which perpetuate and exaggerate the disease.
He thus either obviates a malady or relieves andshortens it.
It shortens the life of cut flowers of any kind to stand in the sun, or to be exposed to a current of air, and the gladiolus is no exception.
If the spikes are slightly wilted in transit it does little harm, as they revive very soon after being placed in water, though it is probable that any wilting shortens their terms of service more or less.
So when the crystalline lens thickens it shortens the focus of the eye, and throws the image forward.
It reduces the resistance of the body and shortens life.
Matthew almost invariably shortens Mark's narratives, and sometimes omits a narrative section, but practically never omits a saying of Jesus given in Mark.
War shortens many lives and fills more with misery; hence its essential inhumanity and immorality.
War shortensmuch life and fills more with misery, hence it is utterly immoral, and this is equally true of poverty and slavery.
This allows the evaporation and concentration to take place at a lower atmospheric pressure and hence also at a lower temperature, which largely obviates the danger of burning the sugar, and shortens the process.
Defn: To become short or shorter; as, the day shortens in northern latitudes from June to December; a metallic rod shortens by cold.
The Canal shortens the distance between the Pacific coast of the Americas and the ports of Europe also, though in a lesser degree.
Routine shortens and variety lengthens time, and it is therefore in the power of men to do something to regulate its pace.
He who has timely learnt to play so well The difficult dissembler's needful task Becomes a perfect man before his time, And shortens his probationary years.
Sometimes, it is true, we could say that nature shortens her road and acts immediately as a cause for the satisfaction of her needs without having in the first instance carried her request before the will.
The one, amiable and of good companionship, shortens the troubles of the journey by the gayety of its plays.
When the violinist plays, he shortens the strings by holding them down with his fingers, and the shorter he makes them the higher the note.
Is a higher or a lower sound produced as the slideshortens the length of the prongs?
Many an immigrant, finding his name constantly mispronounced, changes its vowels or drops some of its consonants; many another shortens it, or translates it, or changes it entirely for the same reason.
Can't is a word none should speak without blushing; To utter it should be a symbol of shame; Ambition and courage it daily is crushing; It blights a man's purpose and shortens his aim.
Music hath charms--at least it should; Even a homely voice sounds good That sings a cheerful, gladsome song That shortensthe way, however long.
In proof of his assertion that factory labor shortens life, Dr.
It lengthens legs because they are used in supporting the body, and shortens arms because they are used in pulling.
It shortens the disused wing-bones of ducks and the leg-bones of rabbits while allowing them to thicken; and yet in other cases it greatly reduces the thickness of bones without shortening them.
These tubes move out with their ends on the wire, carrying the energy with them, and the ends run towards one another along the wire; the tube shortens in the process, and energy is lost in the wire.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shortens" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
